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...LEARNED treatise by our Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of St. James is for sale at the University Bookstore. The subject of the work is interesting, and, considering the high standing of the author and the undoubted excellence of the book, its price is quite reasonable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

...content with these exertions, I elected Fine Arts, and here my trouble began. All went well for the first half, and though nothing definite has been heard from the Blue Book of the midyear, yet I rest under the firm conviction that the result was a good hundred. Then, too, Mr. Perkins's lectures must not be neglected, and judge how my feelings were gratified by a glowing eulogy of etching as the highest field of engraving. With what light steps did I attend the next lectures in my favorite elective! But "put not your trust in professors." What...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CULTURE UNDER DIFFICULTIES. | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

Those who entered their names last spring and last fall on the Steward's book as attendants at Memorial Hall did so with the understanding that the food would in some measure correspond with the architectural appearance of the building, and that it would at least be considerably in advance of that furnished by and suitable to the Thayer Club. Some of these persons are disappointed. Let us compare the present fare with the past, and see why they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL HALL AND THE THAYER CLUB. | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

...gone into the race without proper preparation, and were incapable of doing much more than paddle long before the race was over, but the magnificent efforts of the sound men saved the crew and college from the disgrace of being actually beaten by a weaker-manned boat. My scrap-book does not mention Harvard's colors in this race, - an omission which Mr. Alexander Agassiz, who pulled bow, can perhaps supply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DREAMER. | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

...book-learning or literary culture bestowed by a college education is no more than a daub of paint over the bourgeois figure. Not that the book-learning acquired is superficial, - it is usually sound and thorough, - but the relation of this culture to the man generally is at best merely that of a coat of paint. Nor is it merely a case of scratch a Russian and find a Tartar, for the oil of the paint corrodes and spoils the bourgeois beneath. No bourgeois needs to be told that he is as good as the next man and a good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTILSHOMMES, BOURGEOIS, ARTISTES. | 2/26/1875 | See Source »